But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?-Saint Augustine of Hippo

Art Blos, will you update some of the asteroid models so they use newer models from space.frieger.com/asteroids/? For example, Hanuš et al. (2017) has new and improved models for 2 Pallas, 5 Astraea, 8 Flora, 9 Metis, etc.

Art Blos, could these files be of any use to your project? It's a new version of the hdindex.dat and saoindex.dat files, that also include indexes for TYC stars. (They've been made by extracting data from SIMBAD, and converted using ajtribick's buildxindices.pl file.)

Is it possible for you guys to make an update of the stars.dat file using data from the Gaia Catalogue, both DR1 and DR2 releases, and all other star catalogues not used by the current stars.dat?

But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?-Saint Augustine of Hippo

Lafuente_Astronomy wrote:Is it possible for you guys to make an update of the stars.dat file using data from the Gaia Catalogue, both DR1 and DR2 releases, and all other star catalogues not used by the current stars.dat?

We do not have the ability to edit this file directly. In any case, the Gaia catalog in the current format would weigh dozens of gigabytes.